Okay, it's midnight-thirty, I'm stopping working.

meara, -14 is worse than mine, you win! Mine are -9 and -10. And you've had no problems at all?

I have a little bit of halo-ing at night, and my vision is definitely worse in low light than in sun, but that's not the surgery, just that maybe we should've gone a bit stronger with the lenses. But basically the surgery and all the eye drops after were a huge PITA but it was the best ~$6k I've ever spent?

Okay, it's midnight-thirty, I'm stopping working.

It still is absurd, but I have been really strict about my 10 PM work stoppage rule. Not saying it is 100%, but I'm getting better. It is a sleep regulation thing. Need to turn off brain to get good sleep.

Being able to see without glasses is a beautiful thing. The thing with the contacts is the possibility of swimming while seeing and the whole waking up in the middle of the night and seeing is awesome too. My big issue with the contacts is that I need to take them out more often. I am bad and tend to put them in and then not take them out for too long.

I was extremely near-sighted and my prescription glasses were expensive. Because it was kind of an oddball prescription (right and left eyes were very different and I had a touch of astigmatism), I had to go to a specialty optical store. So the glasses were really expensive. And the place didn't do insurance of any sort (I had a flexible spending account, so I could use that).

Anyway, I had the cataract surgery and now I can do without glasses except for reading. I still need prescription lenses for both reading and distance (to get a drivers license), but they're about 10% of the cost of the old ones.

One thing I'd say - my doctor uses two different prescriptions for the replacement lenses - my right eye is a distance and the left a close-up. The downside is that it's hard for me to focus without glasses to even out the vision. This means it's virtually impossible for me to tweeze my eyebrows or get an eyelash out of my eye.

It sounds like others have the same prescription in both eyes and I think that would have been preferable, but it's moot for me. YVisionMV, but that's my two cents' worth.

I wonder if my insurance would cover that surgery. Probably not.

Mine covered $2k for "laser eye surgery", I think? I had to convince them it was laser eye surgery under their definition. But since it was the only kind I as eligible for...

Mom is here today. So, the plan is to go to volunteer day at the library bookstore while ltc naps this afternoon. I desperately need some adult interaction without her.

my right eye is a distance and the left a close-up

I was given that option with my surgery, because they weren't sure how much correction I'd need for close-up. But I did a test run with two different contact lenses, and it was horrible. There was always a sense of something being out of focus, and one of my great joys is being able to look out at the landscape and see it in focus. I only need readers for small print, and if I have a bright light I don't need them then.

Sean, much health-ma to your mom. My dad had A-fib 7 years ago, and after they stabilized him, they inserted a pacemaker/defibrillator right into him. He's still going at 88.

Health~ma for your mom, Sean.

I should look at the implantable contact lens surgery. Given that my mom just had cataract surgery, and my maternal grandmother & great-grandmother both had cataracts, it's a fairly sure bet that I'll have them.